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February 11th through March 19th, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 2016, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The Manhattan Beach Art Center is pleased to present Floating Letters curated by Gang and Orange. The exhibition features works by Jamie Felton, Audrey Hope, and John Mills. One of the unifying elements in the exhibition is origination of language-expression portrayed through archetypal drawing, symbols, and iconography. These fragments of displayed language serve as a window to document a reference to origins: forms of communication and lived experiences that resonate both ancient and modern. Each artist exhibits their own internal tempos, using contemporary external media to originate systems that seem to float above a grounding primordial elegance. Speaking in their varying tempos, rhythms, and patterns, the artists generate systems: airy, resonances of the intellect, personal iconography and references. Floating Letters encompasses patterns that mimic flying songs of emotive order and structure.

Jamie Felton lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Felton received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and completed her MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in Painting. She participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Felton creates and uses “poetry as a tool to break down painting, utilizing the language of abstract painting as a way to narrate a story or experience.” A series of her paintings based on her poems will be exhibited.

Audrey Hope is a second year MFA student at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her BFA in 2008 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Tufts University, and was awarded a 2014 Traveling Fellowship by the School. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Hope is interested in the way “artists conjure lived experience through texture and artifacts sediment with regional histories.”

John Mills is an artist currently living in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the University of Florida. Mills has exhibited his work nationally and internationally including exhibitions in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Tokyo and London. Mills states, “For me the connection to language is important. I'm interested in how the first marks evolved into systems of language, initially existing as picture signs then becoming autonomous shapes that represented sounds in written language.”

Gang and Orange is co-curatorial project based in Los Angeles that aims to advocate for artists to connect and cultivate a particular vision or experience. Gang and Orange are comprised of Esmeralda Montes and Shanna Waddell.

Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2016 to April 30, 2016
Opening Reception: April 22, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The 16th Annual Mira Costa All Media Art Show showcases artwork from students at Mira Costa High School (MCHS) in grades 9th through 12th. Artwork includes drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, photography, fashion and video installation.

This annual juried show is in its 16th year and is a culminating event for the MCHS Art Department. The exhibit highlights student creativity and passion for the arts.

Intergenerational Art Show: Words into Images
Exhibition Dates: May 11, 2016 to May 14, 2016
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 11, 2015 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
A collaboration between the Manhattan Beach Older Adults Program and Manhattan Beach Middle School (MBMS) bridging the gap between generations through art.

Time 4 Art Exhibition: Family Plot
Exhibition Dates: May 26, 2016 through July 2, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 6:00 PM
Closing Reception: Thursday, June 30, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Video by Eric Minh Swenson

Press Release
Manhattan Beach, CA – Time 4 Art is thrilled to present “Family Plot”, a three artist exhibition highlighting new works by Los Angeles based artists: Ed Moses, Andy Moses, and Kelly Berg.

The exhibition will celebrate three generations of painters that are all related. This exhibition will feature works ranging from the emerging to the established, from the representational to abstract, from flat to dimensional, and from black and white to explosions of color. All of this work also deals in gesture of mark making as well as pursuing organic processes and imagery that relates to the organic world.

At the top of the Los Angeles art scene for the past 50 plus years gracing national and international private and museum collections, legendary Ed Moses is regarded by many as a cultural icon. He refers to himself as a painter rather than an artist. He repels adherence to any one movement, preferring instead a practice that is immersed in the moment. Such commitment has led to a uniquely varied body of work that is invigorated by restless re-invention and willingness to take risks.“I am not interested in expressing myself; Ed Moses says; I am interested in discovering things through meandering and chaos in the confusion of painting.”

Encompassing a futuristic amalgam of abstraction and landscape, Andy Moses continues to explore the natural world not to replicate imagery, but to mimic nature itself. The enigmatic pieces with manipulated surfaces and alchemical reactions evoke a sense of dynamic movement capturing the viewer with a sense of pulsation and tension of the mysteriousness and the unknown below the surface. He has developed his work over decades and it has ranged from being extremely monochromatic to working with paint and color in extremely complex and varied ways, with the notion of physically transmuting one type of material existence into another through keen and relentless observation and understanding.

Andy Moses says: “I have always been interested in fractal like patters that exist in nature, those that repeat on a wide range of scales though never precisely the same. These types of patterns simultaneously suggest both the interconnectedness and complexities of nature."

Riding in the jagged edge between beauty and destruction, Kelly Berg creates textured gestural surfaces with accents of delicate line work through the use of acrylic paint, enamel inks, metal mesh, and plexiglass shards. The paintings invite the viewer in to explore chaotic abstract constructed reliefs and mysterious cataclysmic scenes in both faraway and familiar landscapes. Berg’s lifelong obsession with nature began in her native state of Minnesota, and has continued to inform the works she creates in Los Angeles today.

Kelly Berg says: “I’ve spent quite a bit of time out on the road. When you drive there is a unique combination of motion, sound, and imagery coming together forming an all-encompassing cinematic experience. Out of that momentum begins my explorations in the studio.”

Family Plot is an exploration into the unveiling of the latest works by three artists.

StART Projects Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: July 8, 2016 to July 13, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, July 8, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

This unique program is a collaboration between the Mira Costa High school Art Department and Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts division to present the most gifted and dedicated high school students with an opportunity to fully delve into visual arts. Over the last year students have explored and experimented with different methods and concepts to create the stellar artwork showcased during this exhibition.

Outside the Lines: A Senior Art Show Opening Reception
Dates: July 21st through August 6th
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 21st at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

This annual exhibition is a joint collaboration between the Older Adults Program and Cultural Arts Division and showcases the works of artists ages 55+. Artists are allowed to submit two pieces for consideration in this juried exhibition.

Contemporary Post Future! The Dichotomy of Design and Art
John Van Hamersveld
Exhibition Dates: August 25, 2016 through October 16, 2016
Closing Reception: Sunday, October 16, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

John Van Hamersveld is an American graphic artist, designer, and illustrator. John grew up in and was influenced by the South Bay and California Beach culture. He began his professional career as the art director of surfing magazine, Surf Illustrated. By mid-1960s, Van Hamersveld’s groundbreaking promotional poster for the cult surf film, The Endless Summer, gained international recognition and praise.

By the late ‘60s, John became the art director at Capitol Records where he went on to design over 300 album covers including: Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles, Exile On Main St. by Rolling Stones, Hotter Than Hell by Kiss and more. More recently the designer has seen his images realized on a massive scale, via 12 million LEDs, at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.

This exhibition presents past and present artworks where John Van Hamersveld explores the connection between art, design and commerce.

Time 4 Art Presents: a peek into Chicano art
from the private collection of Cheech Marin

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM; Program begins at 7:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: October 26, 2016 to December 31, 2016

Featuring: Chaz Bojorquez, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, David Flury, Margaret Garcia, Gronk, Jacinto Guevara, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Adan Hernandez, Frank Romero, Alex Rubio, Vinvent Valdez, Andy Villarrea, George Yepes, Jaime "Germs" Zacarios

Envisioned by Homeira Goldstein, Chairman of the Board TIME4ART